Day 5

Day 5: Elder or Community Member Place Stories  

Goal: Students will recognize and reflect on the importance of traditional and local knowledge of the environment, landforms, and places surrounding their community.   

Estimated time: 45-60 minutes

• Invite an Elder, community member, or the bilingual/bicultural teacher to your classroom to talk to students about local place names/traditional navigation techniques using landforms/vocabulary about landforms in the local language/traditional responsibilities and values surrounding the environment.  [Prior to the guest’s arrival- prompt students to think of questions that they might ask about the places that they have chosen to tell a story about that can add detail to both their paintings/written descriptions]. 

• After the guest departs, students will write a short description of what is happening in their story in the box provided on page 4, part VI of their workbooks, using any new knowledge to supplement their story. See student example below. 

Vocabulary

Landform vocabulary in local language

Tradition

Materials

See Materials section, Day 5